[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 630 – Traveller TL6-9 Schooner

[Onno Meyer]

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  Onno Meyer, 2006-11-20

Schooner Princess Iphegenia v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL6-9)
  Copyright 2006 by Onno Meyer

  On planets with large oceans, watercraft are a low-tech alternative to 
contragrav aircraft. The Princess Iphegenia is a good example. She has a 
steel hull, a relatively modern schooner rig, an auxiliary diesel engine 
and imported electronics. 
  The schooner can carry twenty displacement tons of breakbulk cargo and 
ten passengers. Her normal crew are the master, the first mate, six deck 
hands, a mechanic and a cook.
  The stern of the ship holds the captain's stateroom and five passenger 
cabins. Three bunkrooms (with two, four and six bunks) are placed in the 
bow. The mate gets the double bunkroom, which leaves two empty berths in 
the crew quarters. The deck house contains the chart room and the galley 
and dining area. 
  At a routine travel speed of 5 knots, the main engine uses 4 gallons 
of diesel per hour. The diesel generator burns 0.4 gallons per hour. A 
full load of fuel and provisions is $6,720.
  The Princess Iphegenia costs Cr7,760 in Imperial Credits or $155,200 
at TL6 prices.

Subassemblies: Body +7, Superstructure +4, two 100' Masts +2. 
Powertrain: 8,000 sf TL6 cloth sails in bermuda and jib rig; TL6 100-kW 
  screw propeller; TL6 100-kW marine diesel; TL6 10 kW marine diesel.
Fuel: 3,000 gallons diesel (TL6, fire 10).
Occ: 2 TL6 RCS, 6 TL6 cabins, 12 TL6 bunks.   Cargo: 10,000 cf.

Armor              F      RL     B      T      U
Body:             3/15   3/15   3/15   3/15   3/15
Superstructure:   3/10   3/10   3/10   3/10
Masts:            3/15   3/15   3/15   3/15   3/15

Equipment:
  Body: TL9 0.3-mile depth finder; TL6 6,000-lb. external cradle; 1,000 
man-days provisions; TL6 20-man environmental controls. Superstructure: 
TL9 medium-range radio; TL9 short-range cellular phone; TL6 navigation 
instruments; TL9 transponder; TL9 global positioning system; TL9 C2 
dedicated, small computer with datalink; TL6 5-man mess. 

Statistics
Size: 150'x20'x120'   Payload: 120 tons   Lwt.: 200 tons
Volume: 25,000 cf     Maint.: 51 hours    Price: $151,825

HT: 9.   HPs: 7,500 Body, 900 Superstructure, 300 each Mast

MOTOR:
wSpeed: 8   wAccel: 0.1   wDecel: 0.5   wMR: 0.05   wSR: 5

SAIL:
wSpeed: 20   wAccel: 0.8   wDecel: 0.9   wMR: 0.05   wSR: 4
15 degrees MUA. Draft 5.9'. Flotation rating 624 tons.

Design Notes
  Body is 24,000 cf with average lines. Superstructure is 800 cf. Masts 
are 100 cf each. Structure is TL6, medium and cheap. Armor is cheap TL6
metal. Waterproofed. Mechanical controls. 4,800.63 cf of empty space in 
the body and 209.02 cf of empty space in the superstructure. Empty 
weight is 160,000 lbs.
  The vehicle is a TL6 ship with TL9 electronics. It uses the design 
rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi 
and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from 
Vehicles Lite. The Traveller rules affect the background but not the 
technology of this design.


Next Week: Another watercraft, I have several in the pipeline.